‘La Cage aux Folles’ at SF Playhouse

From left: John Treacy Egan as Albin and Ryan Drummond as Georges in San Francisco Playhouse's "La Cage aux Folles."

From left: John Treacy Egan as Albin and Ryan Drummond as Georges...

When the farcical Harvey Fierstein and Jerry Herman musical “La Cage aux Folles” opened on Broadway in 1983, the lyrics from “I Am What I Am” must have sounded, for many gays in the audience, more aspirational than empirical: “It’s my world that I want to take a little pride in/ My world, and it’s not a place I have to hide in.” As San Francisco Playhouse sashays into the St. Tropez drag nightclub of the show’s title, where longtime couple Georges (Ryan Drummond) and Albin (John Treacy Egan) must decide how to present themselves for the sake of their son, it’s worth considering how far we’ve come since then, and how far we still have to go.